Is it possible to determine the sex of a child without an ultrasound?

Gender of the child nature keeps in secret almost to the middle of the term of carrying. For future mothers who are not eager to find out who they are, this time seems incredibly long, and, jokingly or seriously, they begin to look for ways to determine the sex of a child without an ultrasound. Let's look at several ways to do this.

The sex of the future child does not depend on the nutrition of meat or milk, not on sexual intercourse in a certain phase of the cycle before or after ovulation, or even on the full moon, but solely on the future of the pope. Female sex cells always carry the XX chromosome set. But the male cell - the sperm cell can be “charged” in different ways - XX or XY. From what sperm as a result of the first to reach the goal - the egg, and it depends on what sex the child will be. X-sperm guarantees a girl, and Y - a boy.

The sex glands in a child begin to form from the 6th week of pregnancy (only 4 weeks after fertilization). At first, both the girls 'ovaries and the boys' testicles are in the abdominal cavity. Much later, the boy’s glands will descend into the scrotum, and the girls' ovaries will sink into the small pelvis.

External genital organs, which allow the doctor on ultrasound to determine what sex the fetus, complete their formation closer to 12-13 weeks of pregnancy, but their size is still so small that errors in the diagnosis of sex in this period are not excluded. See gender more clearly only after 16-18 weeks of pregnancy. After 20 weeks, the accuracy of ultrasound in predicting gender is approaching 90%.

The desire to find out who lives in the tummy - a boy or a girl, naturally and clearly. Especially for those who already have children of the same sex in the family (two or three sons or two daughters, etc.). Waiting for the moment when the secret becomes clear is given to the mother with difficulty. There are some women who believe that ultrasound is harmful to the child. They consider it wrong to go for such a diagnosis only to find out the sex of the baby.

The harm of ultrasound has not been proven and has not been refuted, since science cannot study the long-term effects of scanning an unborn child with ultrasonic waves. At this stage, the method is considered relatively safe, but not all are sure.

There are other methods that are approved by evidence-based medicine and have been tested. True, they are more expensive than the procedure of ultrasound scanning.

Non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) is the most effective method of determining sex, excluding ultrasound. The test can be done in any medical genetic center. A woman only needs to take a blood test from a vein after 8 weeks of pregnancy.

Red blood cells of the fetus will be found in her blood and their DNA will be isolated, which will make it possible to know with precision both the sex and possible pathologies.

The only drawback of the method is its high price. But many future mommies now breathed a sigh of relief, because before that there was no safe alternative to an invasive procedure with a risk of miscarriage. The analysis does not cancel the planned ultrasound examination in the designated time frame.

At home, you can make a special test to determine gender. It is produced by an American company. "TestPol" can be used in early pregnancy.

It is possible to determine the sex of the unborn child from the 8th week of pregnancy, it is on this period, as the producers indicate, that the fetus begins to produce its own sex hormones. According to the instructions, the urine sample of a woman should be mixed with the reagent and evaluate the color.

Yellow and orange gamma indicates a girl, green - a boy. The cost of the test is from 2,000 to 3,500 rubles. Manufacturers estimate the accuracy of 86%, in fact, as confirmed by reviews of pregnant women, the accuracy is much less.

For those who for some reason are not suitable for medical tests and tests, and for impatient future moms who want to determine the sex almost from the date of conception of the baby, mankind has come up with a lot of ways to calculate the sex of the child, though they all relate to their kind of entertainment .

It is difficult to say with confidence when this table appeared, but it is credited with a rather ancient origin. In China, during the ban on having a second child, the issue of gender planning was acute. Most Chinese families needed a boy to continue their gender, surname. With girls, they could even have an abortion for medical reasons. It is believed that the Chinese still use this table when planning pregnancy.

The information that the table was found in Beijing by archaeologists in a destroyed temple, inscribed on a stone base by ancient sages, does not correspond to the truth. In the 14th century, to which the origin of the method is attributed, there were no months of the Gregorian calendar. Medieval Chinese measured time according to the solar and lunar calendar. But if you leave alone the dubious origin of the method, it is quite possible to have fun, checking your gender in relation to the age of the mother in which she conceived you, as well as the sex of other relatives, knowing how old their mothers conceived.

In case of coincidence it is not worth much to triumph, since the probability of hitting is still quite large, as is the probability of a miss. In the horizontal row, choose the age of the woman at the time of fertilization, and in the column - the month of conception. At the intersection of the positions, either “M” or “D” is obtained, which means boy or girl.

This method provides an excellent opportunity to practice simple math, but makes no guarantee for an accurate result. Its essence boils down to the theory of blood renewal. It is believed that it is updated for women every three years, and for men - every four years. The transferred surgery, the transfusion of donor blood "nullify" the statistics, and the countdown begins already from this time.

It is believed that the child borrows the gender that has been updated last. Thus, a 24-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man are more likely to conceive a boy if they have not had serious medical interventions related to surgical treatment.

From the point of view of traditional medicine, the term “hematopoiesis” can be applied with great stretch to the concept of blood renewal. It describes the processes occurring in the bone marrow and lymphatic system, implies the formation of blood cells, which occurs regularly, and not once every 3-4 years, and in no way is it applicable to the processes of procreation. Because it proceeds with the same intensity in infertile people and in elderly. Therefore, the method of blood renewal can also be safely attributed to the category of entertainment at leisure, such as a crossword puzzle or rebus.

Some mothers who have been on an ultrasound scan at an early period are trying to find the answer to the main question - he or she, relying on the data from the diagnostician on the baby's heart rate. There is a popular belief that the hearts of girls in the womb beat faster than the hearts of boys.

Experienced obstetricians really know how to hear by ear but this happens immediately before the birthin the last weeks before them. And as a diagnostic marker, midwives do not use the heart rate, but tone. A more sonorous and lively heart is more typical of boys, and a quiet tone is typical of girls.

At numerous women's forums on the Internet, the method of determining gender by heartbeat is evaluated by the pregnant women themselves as probabilistic - coincidences are 50/50%.

There is a great many signs that popular rumor attributes diagnostic properties. For example, the field of the child is judged by the shape of the tummy of the pregnant. If he is “sharp,” the navel bulges, then the boy lives in the tum. If the stomach spreads as it were, it “spreads” on the sides, then they say that a woman is waiting for a girl.

But if you like to live by guesswork, please.

Taste preferences of a pregnant woman are also interpreted in favor of a child of either sex. If a woman likes sweets, and she requires ice cream, cake, then it is believed that this is a sign that characterizes the carrying of girls. Salted cucumbers, herring and black bread, by signs, usually like women who are waiting for sons. Medicine does not explain such statements, since no one has ever seriously studied the relationship between food preferences and the sex of the future child.

The capriciousness of the future mother, dramatic mood swings, tearfulness are considered by the people to be a sign that a daughter will soon be born in the family. Calm and peace, drowsiness may indicate a boy. Official medicine says that all the mood swings of a woman in an “interesting position" are primarily caused by hormonal changes in the body, this is how progesterone affects the behavior of the future mother.

Hormones also affect the appearance of a pregnant woman. This could not help people. So, there were signs of beauty.

For more about the signs of determining the sex of the child, see the following video.